Turkey has shut its airspace to Armenian flights, Cavusoglu says
Turkey has closed its airspace to Armenian flights heading to a third destination in response to the unveiling of a monument in Yerevan last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.
Speaking to broadcaster NTV, Cavusoglu said Turkey would take further steps if the monument is not removed, Reuters reported.
The monument to participants of Operation Nemesis, a 1920s program of assassinations of Ottoman Turkish perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, was erected in Yerevan on April 25.
An Armenian parliamentary delegation, led by National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan, is to travel to Ankara on Wednesday to attend a summit of the parliament speakers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) member states and a plenary meeting of the PABSEC General Assembly.